The “Who is running in 2020?” tea leaves thread

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Wikipedia mentions Justin Amash, Chris Christie, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio as potential Republican candidates, as well as Cory Booker and Andrew Cuomo on the Democratic side. There is also, of course, Kanye West, although I doubt he'll actually go through with it.

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Can Tom Cotton run for both Senate and President?

The AR legislature passed a law recently specifically so that Cotton could.

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Top Rubio supporter says he thinks Rubio runs again.

Also against an incumbent president of his own party?

You really are drinking a hell of a lot of Kool Aid.

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What if the Arkansas legislature goes to a Democratic majority in November because of Trump?

The Arkansas Democratic Party is dead.

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Feel The Cotton!

(That's actually clever considering that cotton is a material you can feel #JokeExplainer)

Pick Cotton! The ads write themselves.

He'd do awful among black voters with that slogan...

Hot damn that might be the worst campaign slogan ever if he went with that.

Jindal? Tanned, Rested, Ready.

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But his approval rating is underwater.

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I wonder what would happen if both Castro brothers ran in 2020 and/or 2024.

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Kasich is the most blatantly obvious candidate we've had in a long time.

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I'm fairly sure The Rock is a Republican

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The difference is that Trump was extremely well known before he ran for president. Ask 100 people outside of Missouri and only 1 will know who Jason Kander is, at most.

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Sure, but Kander hasn't even been elected as a Governor or Congress member. Also, let's take a look at the presidential nominees in the past:

2016 - Both Hillary and Trump were household names
2012 - Romney was fairly well known for his 2008 campaign
2008 - Obama known thanks to his DNC speech; McCain more well known due to 2000 campaign and time in Senate
2004 - Kerry somewhat well known due to time in Senate
2000 - Gore was Vice President, Bush was related to a former president
1996 - Dole well known due to being a former VP nominee and a long-serving Senator
1992 - Bill Clinton was virtually unknown nationally before 1992

So we have to go back to 1992 to find someone even close to how unknown Kander is.

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R - Retarded (Donald Trump)
D - Very Retarded (Elizabeth Warren)
L - Sane (Ron Paul)
G - Good intentions but bad policies (Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein)
I - My waifu

My waifu will win by a landslide, 99.99999% likely. Greens might win Vermont.

Discuss with maps

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The new Gillibrand knows exactly what she's doing, in my opinion. She's trying to combine the Clinton and Sanders bases, and I feel like she might be able to pull it off.